Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content

Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by cassepipe on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:55PM (#38919562)

I see a lot of complaining about Duolingo being worthless but I beg to differ.

First I have not used the app but IIRC it uses a lot of "Choose the correct word among those four" but it's quite bad for reinforcement. It's much better to reinforce what you learned to have to type a sentence from scratch. I recommend using it on a computer. Also, I don't know if that exercise is still ther, but having to pronounce a sentence is also good. The problem was it was too easy to pass though.

The other thing is that it does not replace learning the language, that is reading a grammar in order to know what are the general rules of the language. But it does replace conversation if you are not able to speak the language and provide a a good source of daily reinforcement, and vocabulary.

It's an effective tool when used correctly in my opinion.

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by impute on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:58PM (#38919603)

"I have not used the app"

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by oarsinsync on Monday January 08, 2024 @06:25PM (#38919960)

GP also notes: “I recommend using it on a computer.”

App often refers to a mobile native app specifically, rather than the entirety of a product / service.

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by cassepipe on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @05:06PM (#38932899)

Exactly, thanks

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by rymiel on Monday January 08, 2024 @06:44PM (#38920162)

They removed typing in answers for source language (i.e. English) translations. Was a feature, but now it's gone. You have to pick from the words they give you

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by lolinder on Monday January 08, 2024 @07:20PM (#38920564)

When it was a feature it was often frustratingly broken because their questions would have an ambiguity but they would only accept one possible answer as valid. So you would read the sentence, translate it, and then get told you were wrong because whoever wrote the question didn't recognize the ambiguity.

Removing the feature altogether was probably cheaper than fixing all of their questions.

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